About Sarah
Sarah Johnston is a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky who focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, relationships, family concerns, parenting, and self-esteem. She uses straightforward conversation and active listening to help people talk through what feels overwhelming. Sarah aims to create an open space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment.
With three years of professional experience, she adapts her work to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She combines client-centered ways of listening with goal-focused tools to help people notice patterns and try different approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used when people want to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Motivational Interviewing is part of her approach when someone needs help finding reasons to change and building momentum.
Solution-Focused ideas guide short-term planning and practical next steps for immediate problems. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used sensitively when past events still affect daily life. Sarah often helps with adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and the practical strains of money or midlife transitions.
She also addresses communication problems, infidelity, jealousy, and separation concerns in a direct and calm way. Sessions aim to balance listening with concrete strategies. People leave with small, doable steps to try between meetings.
Sarah encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. Online sessions let the therapist ask questions and mirror concerns so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online work CBT can include worksheets, thought logs, and planning exercises that clients use between sessions to practice new habits.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to emphasize listening, skills practice, motivation building, or trauma-focused support.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English